Last Updated: TMC Leaders Get COVID Vaccine Shot Ahead Of Healthcare Workers In Bengal, BJP Cries Foul In yet another controversy over COVID vaccine rollout, many healthcare workers alleged that they could not get the jab as several TMC netas got it first In yet another controversy over COVID vaccine rollout, many healthcare workers in West Bengal alleged that they could not get the jab as several Trinamool Congress leaders, including two MLAs, were among the people who received the COVID-19 vaccine in Purba Bardhaman district on Saturday. District health officials said that these leaders are all associated with different hospitals as members of the Patients' Welfare Committees, and therefore they are eligible for the vaccination programme in the first round. However, BJP's national general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya described the incident as "loot".